Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

ABC Online
Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Indigenous Construction Resource Group (ICRG) has secured multi-million dollar contracts with major mining companies on iron ore mines in Western Australia's north west. With 150 Aboriginal workers, ICRG is one of the largest private employers of ...

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ABC Online
Mining downturn failing to hold back contracting company working with Indigenous communities in Western Australia
ABC Online
The Indigenous Construction Resource Group (ICRG) has secured multi-million dollar contracts with major mining companies on iron ore mines in Western Australia's north west. With 150 Aboriginal workers, ICRG is one of the largest private employers of ...

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The South Burnett Times
Photographic project aims to celebrate indigenous diversity
The South Burnett Times
LEVI-CRAIG Murray is on a mission to celebrate the diversity of indigenous Australia, and he needs your help. Mr Murray wants to create a more accurate representation of indigenous people through his photography project Modern Indigenous Australia.

Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
Non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving the number of Indigenous people in the workforce write Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University fellow, Boyd Hunter, ANU Senior fellow, ...

The Australian
Queen's birthday honours 2016: art's 'indigenous renaissance'
The Australian
“You always hear the worst statistics, but I'm seeing that we've moved into this renaissance,” the Sydney Opera House's head of indigenous programming said. “In film, in TV, in art; you've got nine indigenous people standing for parliament. Australia ...

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ABC Online
Queen's Birthday honours: Warren Mundine recognised for service to Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Today he has been honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia for his more than 35 years of work dedicated to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians. "It makes you feel funny, " he said upon being named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Queen's birthday honours 2016: art's 'indigenous renaissance'The Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Marathon Foundation runner John Leha is helping others to run City2Surf
The Sydney Morning Herald
"I saw the potential to address one of the greatest challenges that we face in Australia with our Indigenous people ... I went from trying to find an Olympic champion to realising this program had the potential to do something far more important," said ...

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Viet Nam News
Australian Aboriginal artists tell their story
Viet Nam News
Some of them tell the story of how a long, long track along which cattle walked to market changed the lives of Aboriginal people. European settlers to Australia built the track through Australia's wide open spaces inland of the coast. This area of ...

Why Indigenous culture and tourism need each other
ABC Message Stick
With Asian holidaymakers flocking to Australia, Indigenous tour operators are getting ready to reap the rewards. International short-term visitor arrivals to Australia hit the highest level on record in April, according to the most recent figures ...

Pro Bono Australia
Australia's Youngest Generation is the Most Vulnerable Says Report
Pro Bono Australia
The level of over-representation of Indigenous people aged 10 – 17 years in detention increased from 19 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people in 2011 to 26 times in 2015. Young people who have been homeless have a mental (79.9 per cent) or ...
Children In Poverty Report Shows One In Six Aussie Kids Live In PovertyHuffington Post Australia
Australian governments have failed children: UNICEF reportBrisbane Times

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The Conversation AU
Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
The Conversation AU
While the Australian Law Reform Commissions's 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, ...
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treatyThe Australian
Aboriginal leaders demand Indigenous affairs be put on the federal agendaABC Local
Election 2016: Calls for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff to head new DepartmentABC Online
National Indigenous Times -ABC Message Stick -Save The Children Australia
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The Conversation AU
Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences. Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems ...

Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
Brisbane Times
Professor Neil Thomson, who died earlier this year aged 73, worked tirelessly throughout his life to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Australia. Among his many achievements, was the establishment of the groundbreaking Australian ...

The Guardian
'We vote too': Indigenous groups warn both parties they want action
The Guardian
They also warned the next government to reinstate funding for the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said was unrepresentative. “What we've got done here today has been a united voice ...

The Australian Financial Review
The NAB Indigenous associate who could be CEO one day
The Australian Financial Review
"It's not easier or harder being an Indigenous Australian," he said. "Location wise it can be. You're also not being exposed to as many opportunities. But I grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales so I was probably lucky. The best part is I ...

The Australian
Federal election 2016: peak group demands indigenous treaty
The Australian
They will express “deep concern” that indigenous Australians continue to experience unacceptable disadvantage, are isolated to the margins of the national debate and suffer because of policies that “continue to be made for and to, rather than with ...
Unions weigh into retirement debateGold Coast Bulletin

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Daily Mail
Mikayla George, 16, becomes the first Indigenous Winter Olympian for Australia
Daily Mail
[Because aerial skiing is high risk] everything has to be practiced until it's absolutely perfect,' Mikayla told the Australia Indigenous Alpine Sport Foundation, for which she is an ambassador. 'Just a boot can be several kilos. Then you carry your ...

Weekly Times Now
Rural Victoria offers a peek into Aboriginal Australian history
Weekly Times Now
The Bangerang Cultural Centre, originally the Shepparton Arts Council, is the first Aboriginal cultural “keeping place or museum” to be developed and managed by the Aboriginal community in Australia. The centre houses an important collection of ...

Illawarra Mercury
South Australia dining: Getting the indigenous food experience at Adelaide's Orana restaurant
Illawarra Mercury
The menu at Orana is a confluence of indigenous produce and classical technique and is the brainchild of Scottish expat Jock Zonfrillo, who after arriving in Australia in the mid–90s has made it his mission to prove that native ingredients have a place ...

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The Border Mail
South Australia dining: Getting the indigenous food experience at Adelaide's Orana restaurant
The Border Mail
The menu at Orana is a confluence of indigenous produce and classical technique and is the brainchild of Scottish expat Jock Zonfrillo, who after arriving in Australia in the mid–90s has made it his mission to prove that native ingredients have a place ...

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